Nothing whatsoever, I was just sharing the numbers lol. As I say in one of my later posts, i wasn't sure if this was a suitable thread, but I decided to go ahead with it anyway, and on the whole, people seem to be happy :)

Nothing whatsoever, I was just sharing the numbers lol. As I say in one of my later posts, i wasn't sure if this was a suitable thread, but I decided to go ahead with it anyway, and on the whole, people seem to be happy :)Great

Great to see it, I guess. Are you going to add an updated version of the top 10 best-selling game franchises anytime soon?

Nothing whatsoever, I was just sharing the numbers lol. As I say in one of my later posts, i wasn't sure if this was a suitable thread, but I decided to go ahead with it anyway, and on the whole, people seem to be happy :)Great

Great to see it, I guess. Are you going to add an updated version of the top 10 best-selling game franchises anytime soon?

I'll tell you what I take away from it. Being harsh to Nintendo is kind of stupid.

Well yeah, but I mean, anyone with any sense or awareness of gaming history knows that lol, Nintendo usually know what they are doing, and they have performed extraordinarily well each time they have had their backs to the wall. Of course, it remains to be seen if they can pull something out of the hat again this time around.

People keep forgetting just how successful Nintendo's software and hardware was last generation :P

Congrats on the modship, btw!

I knew they were good but holy hell that's a lot. Granted it's over a longer period of time but I thought GTA V was absolute gangbusters but to see it dwarfed by that is quite something

and thanks :D

Wii Sports was a bundled game so not really a fair comparison. GTAV may have a gotten a few 100K from the PS3 bundle at the most.

Bundles still count, yo. I do admit on its own Wii Sports and GTA V would not have been a comparison at all, but one needs to remember, most people literally bought a Wii just to play Wii Sports (and later on, Fit, Play, Kart, Brawl, and NSMB). I mean, you really can't take away from its achievement.

I'm pretty certain I recall an article stating World of Warcraft had sold three times as many games as its current subscriber base (which was around 10+ million at the time). Unfortunately that article was written years ago, and I can't find it.

I also find it hard to believe that The Sims didn't sell more than 24 million copies.

blizzard releases stats not too long ago. They claim over 100k accounts was made before about year ago you had to buy the game to even make a account

Tetris and Minecraft figures appear to include mobile downloads. Without mobile downloads, Tetris sold about 43 million (35 million bundled with Game Boy and 8 million on NES) and Minecraft sold about 25 million (14 million on PC, 10 million on 360, and 1 million on PS3). Should cheap mobile downloads count?

Action games are a very broad genre, including platformers, shooters, fighters, brawlers, etc. God of War III falls under hack & slash, or more broadly, brawlers. Maybe you should rename it to one of those terms instead? It doesn't really make any sense to associate action games exclusively with brawlers.